Courgette, lemon and basil pasta

Name: Courgette, lemon and basil pasta
Ingredients: 100 g spaghetti or linguine (or pasta of choice); sea salt and freshly ground black pepper; grated zest and juice of ½ small unwaxed lemon; 1 garlic clove, finely chopped; leaves from a few sprigs of basil; 2 tbsp olive oil; a pinch of chilli flakes; Parmesan cheese, grated, to serve; 2 tbsp pine nuts, toasted, to serve; 1 banana shallot or 2–3 smaller shallots, finely chopped; 1 courgette, roughly grated or chopped

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Solo

By Signe Johansen

Published 2018

About

Here’s a quick vegetarian pasta dish that can easily be adapted to other greens: try it with asparagus, broccoli or broad beans when you tire of courgette.

Ingredients

100 g spaghetti or linguine (or pasta of choice)
2 tbsp olive oil

Main course
Vegetarian

Method

Bring a medium saucepan of salted water to the boil and cook the pasta according to the packet instructions.

Meanwhile, heat half the olive oil in a separate skillet or frying pan over a low-medium heat, add the shallot and fry for about 5 minutes until soft, then add the garlic and chilli flakes and fry for a further minute. Add the remaining olive oil, tip in the courgette, season wit